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He also warned us about the military industrial complex… which… he himself basically started.
Definitely predates him significantly. One of the objections to one of the early Hague conventions on poison gas around ~1900 by the American ambassador was that, while the US did not claim that chemical weapons were desirable to use for its own military, we retained the right to produce chemical weapons to sell to others.
He did let the leash off the CIA though, which was... not a good move.